A word.
mmm...
A
word...
A phrase.
Mmm
A
phrase.
I know!
A word= love
A phrase= I love you
Mmm, too cliché. Overused.
Ok, let's see word by word.
I= object pronoun, first person singular. It is curious to note that in English this word is always written in capital letter, regardless of its location. This tells us a lot about language and thus culture, I mean how the people that speak and developped it see life. "I" is the individual, it is so important that even in English graphology, a person who writes it in small case is considered to have a low self-esteem. But it is important to see the lesson here -- "I" is written in capital letters because it is always the protagonist of the story, therefore each and one of us should feel we only have one life to live and therefore live it as if we were writing the best story we could. From a stylistic point of view "I" lets the writer hide his/her name thus making its identity be easily substitutable by the reader and therefore allowing for the written experience to be shared easily.
love = transitory verb. This means it has to have a grammatical object, its repercusions have to fall on someone (or something, although this is a bit sick). Love has to be shared, it cannot be just happening out there. Love can start with oneself. If I don't love myself, how can I love anybody else? If one ought to love something, well, life is a good object. People who hate life are bound to hate everything and everybody else. So loving a "you" is the next option to be discussed.
you= object personal pronoun second person singular. Ok, I'm cheating here because "you" is also a plural and also a subject personal pronoun singular and plural. Whatever, for the effects of this... mmm green tea effects, "you" is the substitute of any object of love. Therefore "you" can also be easily replaced by the object of affection of the reader who first identified with "I". Now, this couldn't be possible if I wrote "I love him". Anybody with different preferences than mine would change the pronoun or would relate to the experience.
Anyway, this is just mere rambling and exercising the result of drinking, not exactly green tea, but matte herb from Argentina during one of my classes with Carlos who is always experimenting his tea mixes with me.
mmm...
A
word...
A phrase.
Mmm
A
phrase.
I know!
A word= love
A phrase= I love you
Mmm, too cliché. Overused.
Ok, let's see word by word.
I= object pronoun, first person singular. It is curious to note that in English this word is always written in capital letter, regardless of its location. This tells us a lot about language and thus culture, I mean how the people that speak and developped it see life. "I" is the individual, it is so important that even in English graphology, a person who writes it in small case is considered to have a low self-esteem. But it is important to see the lesson here -- "I" is written in capital letters because it is always the protagonist of the story, therefore each and one of us should feel we only have one life to live and therefore live it as if we were writing the best story we could. From a stylistic point of view "I" lets the writer hide his/her name thus making its identity be easily substitutable by the reader and therefore allowing for the written experience to be shared easily.
love = transitory verb. This means it has to have a grammatical object, its repercusions have to fall on someone (or something, although this is a bit sick). Love has to be shared, it cannot be just happening out there. Love can start with oneself. If I don't love myself, how can I love anybody else? If one ought to love something, well, life is a good object. People who hate life are bound to hate everything and everybody else. So loving a "you" is the next option to be discussed.
you= object personal pronoun second person singular. Ok, I'm cheating here because "you" is also a plural and also a subject personal pronoun singular and plural. Whatever, for the effects of this... mmm green tea effects, "you" is the substitute of any object of love. Therefore "you" can also be easily replaced by the object of affection of the reader who first identified with "I". Now, this couldn't be possible if I wrote "I love him". Anybody with different preferences than mine would change the pronoun or would relate to the experience.
Anyway, this is just mere rambling and exercising the result of drinking, not exactly green tea, but matte herb from Argentina during one of my classes with Carlos who is always experimenting his tea mixes with me.
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